Highguard

Highguard's final update - which Wildlight's "skeleton crew" crunched to finish - goes live, just days before the game disappears forever

Video game Highguard axed weeks after release

Highguard, the star of The Game Awards 2025, shuts down on March 12

Troubled free-to-play shooter, Highguard, is officially shutting down, little over six weeks after its high-profile launch, developer Wildlight Entertainment has confirmed | Developer Wildlight says it hasn’t been able to attract enough players to the free-to-play shooter

Highguard will shut down permanently next week because Wildlight doesn't make "enough revenue to keep anyone employed to work on it"

Highguard has raided its last fortress, will shutdown on March 12

Former Highguard level designer suggests "sweaty" competitive 3v3 play "was the biggest thing that turned a lot of players off"

Highguard started life as a survival shooter, and Tencent pulled funding two weeks after launch, a new report claims

The Story Behind the Failure of ‘Highguard’

Highguard barely has several hundred people playing together each day - can an incoming all-out action mode reverse its fate?

Highguard developer Wildlight Entertainment reportedly funded by Tencent, though the scale of this funding remains a mystery

"We were turned into a joke from minute one" - fired Highguard developer reflects on game's ill-fated launch and "false assumptions" after Game Awards reveal

Highguard studio lays off 'most' of its team just weeks after the game went live

Highguard may be about to suffer the same fate as PS5’s Concord, as the developer lays off ‘most’ of its staff

Highguard game developer lays off staff just two weeks after release

Highguard not shutting down following Wildlight layoffs, with a "core group" of developers left to support game

Highguard's latest update includes new Warden, Ekon, who can ride himself (yes, really)

As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent

Highguard, a hyperpop arena shooter and other new indie games worth checking out

As Highguard stumbles out the gate after weeks of criticism, are we being too hard on live service games?